582 



KOCTUID^. 



8432. Palffioplusia ventista. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 24.) 



Fluda venusta, Wlk. xxxiii. 836 (1865) ; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. 



pi. Tii. f. 11 ; Smitb, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 248. 

 Plusia striaiella, Grote, Bull. Euff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 194 (1873). 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; antennse rufous ; 

 patagia with oblique rufous bars at base edged behind by whitish ; 

 abdomen ochreous. Fore wing bright rufous ; the costal area 

 ochreous, broadly bej^ond the cell where it extends to vein 5 ; the 

 inner area ochreous, extending to just above vein 1, which is 



Fig. 127. — Falceopluda venusta, J. \. 



streaked with rufous, except at base ; a silvery-white streak from 

 below middle of cell to near termen above vein 2 ; a black point at 

 upper angle of cell ; a fine brown terminal line defined on inner 

 side by an ochreous line except towards tornus, the rufous curving 

 upwards on its inner side to below apex ; cilia ochreous, the tips 

 pale rufous. Hind wing ochreous suffused with glossy brown ; 

 a slight ochreous line before the fine terminal brown line ; cilia 

 ochreous ; the underside ochreous, the terminal half faintly tinged 

 with rufous except towards tornus, a slight brown discoidal lunule. 

 Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia {Bush), 1 5 type, Alberta, 

 Calgary {Wolley-Dod), 2 6 ; U.S.A., Maine, New York, 2 J, 

 Distr. of Columbia. I^xp. 34-38 millim. 



Genus ABEOSTOLA. 



Abrostola, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 88 (1816), non clescr. ; Type. 



Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 96 (1829) triplada. 



Inguridia, Butl. A. M. IN. H. (5) iv. p. 354 (1879) abrostolina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 8rd rather long; frons smooth 

 with large tuft of hair, a flattened tuft of hair between antennas ; eyes large, 

 round, overhung by long cilia ; antennse of male minutely ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales, the uieso- and metathorax with large 



